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grammar

Dear teachers,

Please read the following sentence.

Before the group of specialists would give their opinion, they wanted to confer with one another.

My question is why do we need 'would'? As a grammatical rule in conditional clauses and clauses of time we don't use aux. So it should be ' Before the group of specialists gave their....'. I have spent much time consulting all my grammar books to find similar examples but I failed to find any. Could you please tell me if the usage of 'would' is correct or not?